Celebrating World Enterprise Mobility Day

Did you know that April 25 was World Penguin Day? I didn’t either. My first reaction was confusion. What exactly are you supposed to do on World Penguin Day? Wear a tuxedo? Install a copy of your favorite Linux distribution? I know one person who would say you should install Ubuntu. But seriously – this is so absurd. My second thought was to say “Why isn’t there a World Enterprise Mobility Day?” And hence started a wave of positive reaction. Why NOT have a World Enterprise Mobility Day?

Enterprise mobility is growing by leaps and bounds. One only need look at the attendance at Interop earlier this week at all the sessions around tablets and mobility management. The rooms were packed. There is a real buzz around this new area of enterprise IT. Enterprise mobility is one of the most exciting opportunities within the workplace these days because of all the change management opportunities it provides organizations. Change – REAL change – happens in waves, and it’s not something that happens all the time. But there is a real paradigm shift occurring in terms of how organizations are looking at their business processes….and how they can be impacted by mobile technologies. There is a real revolution occurring today in in business process improvement…and we are right in the middle of it in the world of enterprise mobility.

So why not have a special day to raise the collective awareness around the world regarding the power of mobile technologies in the workplace? I just saw a tweet moments ago that perfectly captures the spirit of World Enterprise Mobility Day:

Today is World Enterprise Mobility Day. Here’s a shout-out to everyone helping transform the way people do business #WEMD

You have to love it. And what day should it be? After much deep thought and consultation with the folks at Murky Research of Car Talk Fame, we came up with today May 13. No, not Friday the 13th (coincidence)…but E (the 5th letter of the alphabet) and M (the 13th letter of the alphabet). I’m sure you can tell, much thought and analysis went into this.

So what does one do on World Enterprise Mobility Day? No, I’m not suggesting you go hug your BES administrator (you can though, if you want). Here are a couple of ideas:

Think about the kinds of applications your company could benefit from if they were mobilized

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]

[...] SAP’s Kevin Cassidy will host. The topic will be enterprise mobility, and I’m honored to be one of the two guest (finger quotes) experts, along with Philippe Winthrop of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation. [...]